{"id":15569,"date":"2014-03-07T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-hochevar-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:28:00","slug":"royals-hochevar-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/royals-hochevar-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals&#8217; Hochevar to have Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Kansas City Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar will undergo Tommy John surgery, according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n<p>Hochevar felt a twinge in his elbow during Monday&#8217;s game against the Chicago White Sox. An MRI taken Tuesday revealed a sprain in Hochevar&#8217;s right elbow, and the team expected him to be out until at least late May.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander will now miss all of the 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Hochevar was moved to the bullpen last season and posted a 5-2 record with a 1.92 earned run average over 58 appearances, but expected to compete for the fifth spot in the Royals starting rotation.<\/p>\n<p>Hochevar suffered a similar injury in 2010, but it did not require surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Kansas City Royals pitcher Luke Hochevar will undergo Tommy John surgery, according to MLB.com. Hochevar felt a twinge in his elbow during Monday&#8217;s game against the Chicago White Sox. An MRI taken Tuesday revealed a sprain in Hochevar&#8217;s right elbow, and the team expected him to be out until at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[110,216,217],"class_list":["post-15569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-royals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}